Today, we read a picture book called, ‘The Lost Thing’ by Shaun Tan. The Lost Thing is a humorous story about a boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature while out collecting bottle-tops at a beach. Having guessed that it is lost, he tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs, but the problem is met with indifference by everyone else, who barely notice it’s presence. Each is unhelpful in their own way; strangers, friends, parents are all unwilling to entertain this uninvited interruption to day-to-day life. In spite of his better judgement, the boy feels sorry for this hapless creature, and attempts to find out where it belongs.
We loved looking at the interesting illustrations and discussing our connections from the story to our lives. The Lost Thing invites us to look at society in a different way, encouraging us to notice things and not to ignore those who are different but to help them, as they may need it.
After reading the story we watched the short animation matching the picture book. It was fascinating sharing our thoughts after watching the animation, making new connections to the book.
We are looking forward to reading more of Shaun Tan’s books.
Check out the website to see the gallery of illustrations and the trailer for the short film: http://www.thelostthing.com/
I love this book! Great choice Eagles!
The lost thing is a great story. I love the pictures.
I really liked the book I thought it was interesting in the style it was written
This book was really fun to read. I hope we read some more books like this. ?
I enjoyed listening to this book. It has beautiful illustrations!
I like the book because the illustrations are really detailed and the the way it’s worded is rally detailed to?
This book was really cool I recommend the whole school to read it in assembly ?
I really enjoyed this book ?. However it creeped me out that they all acted like robots .
I liked that most of it made no sense ?
I really enjoyed this book . The environment looked very damp .Know one spotted these odd looking creatures around the area but a man on his way to start finding bottle caps to complete his collection.???. I would rate this book⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.
The lost thing was a nice book to read
This book ? was very fun to read and I’m happy that it had a video to go with it
I recommended you to read this book (the lost thing) ??❤️
The creator of this book was very VERY creative as the thing was made up of many many different items for example the wire plugs for eyes. ???????
It sounds like a great book to read
I recommend this book it is so good
Beautiful pictures it is so colourful in the end and so dull at the start?
‘The Lost Thing’ had a really good ending.
The author was very creative with the pictures he was going to put on the book.☺
The Lost Thing is a great book!It is enjoyable.